High or Low Pressure
Winds
Precipitation
Water Cycle
Clouds
100
Cool and Clear
What is high pressure
100
Wind blow from _______ to ________ pressure.
What is high to low.
100
Type of precipitation that falls when the temperature is above freezing.
What is rain?
100
The sun heats water on the Earth causing it to turn to water vapor.
What is evaporation?
100
Thin wispy clouds
What are cirrus?
200
Cloudy and Rainy
What is low pressure?
200
The type of breeze you feel during the day at the beach.
What is a sea breeze?
200
Type of precipitation that will fall if the temperature is below freezing.
What is snow?
200
Clouds can no longer hold moisture, become too heavy and water falls back to earth.
What is precipitation?
200
Thick low lying clouds that blanket the sky
What are stratus
300
Air pressure is dropping.
What is low pressure?
300
The winds that bring weather to NC.
What are the prevailing westerlies?
300
When rain falls through freezing air the type of precipitation is called this.
What is freezing rain/sleet?
300
Water vapor cools and forms clouds.
What is condensation?
300
Large white puffy clouds
What are cumulous?
400
Air pressure is rising
What is high pressure?
400
A land breeze blows in what direction?
What is from the land to the sea?
400
The water cycle requires heat energy from this.
What is the sun?
400
Storm clouds
What are cumulonimbus
500
What causes areas of high and low pressure?
What is uneven heating of the earth?
500
The winds used by sailors in the triangular trade routes that move from the east to the west and often bring Hurricanes to the US.
What are trade winds.
500
Type of frozen precipitation that often falls during severe storms in the summer.
What is hail?
500
When plants "sweat" or lose water to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
M
e
n
u